Josh Clark

And we're going to talk a little bit about the history, though.

That term humanism goes back to at least Cicero in 1st century BCE Rome, when that very famous writer and I think lawyer and statesman used the word humanitas,

to describe like people developing or the development of these qualities, these virtuous qualities that Chuck will talk about, like a moral and ethical center, compassion, good judgment, like being a good person and doing good things.

Yeah, I mean, looking back, we apply the tag to a lot of different people.

We're going to talk about some of them, but yeah, they wouldn't have called themselves that then.

Petrarch was probably looked at as maybe the first humanist or the first modern man sometimes called.

And in the Renaissance, it was it was a pretty hot ticket, depending on what crowd you ran with.

If you were among the elites in the Renaissance, you might have hired humanist scholars to come and teach your kids all about like sort of the moral systems of the classical era to, you know, and very much in the effort, like you were saying, to bring us out of what they call the Dark Ages.

And some aspects of this whole movement in the Renaissance included three things we're going to kind of touch on here are realism, dignity of the individual human and application of learning, like putting it into practice.

Yeah.

And also part of that first one with the realism was that we are flawed.

So if we want to learn about each individual and human, the nature of what it means to be human, we have to look at the bad stuff, too, like the devices and the disorders and things like that.

And then that last one that I mentioned was application of learning, like all this stuff is great, but it's not navel gazing like or we don't want it to be navel gazing.

We want to actually like stimulate action.

Yeah, for sure.

And it'll also tie into the Unitarian church in a big way later on.

A church that has interested me.

I mean, I like my Sundays free, so probably not going to go.

But if any quote unquote church appeals to me at this age and where I am in life, it's definitely those guys.

And we're also talking about like coming out of a time where atheism like could get you killed.